News tagged with weather data
New map for what to plant reflects global warming
(AP) -- Global warming is hitting not just home, but garden. The color-coded map of planting zones often seen on the back of seed packets is being updated by the government, illustrating a hotter 21st century.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 25, 2012 |
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Tropical clouds hold clues for the global water cycle
(PhysOrg.com) -- To study the wellspring of atmospheric water, you have to start with tropical clouds. Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory showed that global climate models are not accurately ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 16, 2012 |
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Don't put all your eggs in one basket -- or all your horses on one pasture
Winters in the Gobi desert are usually long and very cold but the winter of 2009-2010 was particularly severe. Millions of livestock died in Mongolia and the re-introduced wild Przewalski's horse population crashed dramatically. ...
Dec 29, 2011 |
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NORAD and satellite technology help Santa deliver
(PhysOrg.com) -- According to the U.S. Department of Commerce Census Bureau, the world's population is approximately 7 billion (6,979,978,073+) people. Santa Claus has had to adapt over the years to having ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 22, 2011 |
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Every cloud has a silver lining: Weather forecasting models could predict brain tumor growth
Ever wondered how meteorologists can accurately predict the weather? They use complex spatiotemporal weather models, i.e. mathematical equations that track the motions of the atmosphere through time and space, and combine ...
Dec 21, 2011 |
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Lawrence Livermore ramps up wind energy research
As the percentage of wind energy contributing to the power grid continues to increase, the variable nature of wind can make it difficult to keep the generation and the load balanced.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Dec 14, 2011 |
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Climate change: South Africa has much to lose
(AP) -- Imagine the savannas of South Africa's flagship Kruger Park so choked with brush, viewing what game is left is nearly impossible. The Cape of Good Hope without penguins. The Karoo desert's seasonal ...
Nov 24, 2011 |
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Erratic, extreme day-to-day weather puts climate change in new light
The first climate study to focus on variations in daily weather conditions has found that day-to-day weather has grown increasingly erratic and extreme, with significant fluctuations in sunshine and rainfall ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 15, 2011 |
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Which way does the wind blow? Let's find out!
On a bluff overlooking the Atlantic, Grady Koch spent a month watching ocean winds.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Nov 03, 2011 |
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Arctic sea ice continues decline, hits 2nd-lowest level
(PhysOrg.com) -- Last month the extent of sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean declined to the second-lowest extent on record. Satellite data from NASA and the NASA-supported National Snow and Ice Data Center ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 05, 2011 |
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Soybean rust PIPE: Past, present and future
A new, open-access article in the Journal of Integrated Pest Management describes the origin, function, successes, limitations, and future of the Soybean Rust Pest Information Platform for Extension and Education (PIPE).
Sep 08, 2011 |
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Goodnight Irene: NASA's TRMM Satellite adds up Irene's massive rainfall totals
The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) has been busy doing just that: measuring the massive amounts of rainfall left in the wake of Hurricane Irene as she ravaged the Caribbean and U.S. East coast ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 31, 2011 |
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New flood prediction technology simulates rivers 100x faster than real time
Researchers from IBM and the University of Texas at Austin have applied advanced analytics to river systems, weather and sensor data, to predict the Guadalupe River’s behavior more than a hundred times ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 25, 2011 |
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80 percent of world climate data are not computerized
In order to gain a better knowledge of climate variations, such as those caused by global warming, and be able to tackle them, we need to understand what happened in the recent past. This is the conclusion ...
Jul 20, 2011 |
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Landsat 5 satellite helps emergency managers fight largest fire in Arizona history
The largest fire in the history of the state of Arizona continues to burn and emergency managers and responders are using satellite data from a variety of instruments to plan their firefighting containment ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 16, 2011 |
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